Scenes from a Lakota reservation - Page Text Content

1: I have never met an Indian person who didn't somewhere deep inside struggle with anger and sadness at what happened to their people, and I have never met an honest and aware non-Indian person in America who didn't somewhere deep inside struggle with guilt about what we as a culture have done to the people who inhabited this continent before us.. We can like each other, hate each other, feel pity for each other, love each other. But, always, somewhere beneath the surface of our personal encounters, this cultural memory is rumbling. A tragedy has taken place on our land, and even though it did not take place on our watch, we are it's inheritors, and the earth remembers. Kent Nerburn Neither Wolf nor Dog. With love and profound gratitude to friends and 'partner families' on Rosebud who, over the years, have taught me so much about their lives, their history and how to find beauty in the midst of our shared brokenness..